What do I need to use Async Update Format?

The update's audience and altitude; The cadence and the vehicle; This period's raw material.

Is Async Update Format free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Async Update Format

Q: How do I know the Async Update Format output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The state is first and its why fits one line; Every bullet is a delta — no inventory restatements; Every blocker names a person, an action, and a date; Next is a dated milestone, verifiable next update.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Write status updates people actually read — the traffic-light-plus-narrative format (state first, story second), the blockers-are-asks rule, and the skimmable structure that respects a reader with thirty seconds. Use when asked write my weekly update, format our team's status posts, nobody reads my updates, or what goes in a good async check-in. Produces the update format with a filled example, the blockers-as-asks discipline, and the reader-time contract.

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What to give it

▸The update's audience and altitude — the manager (risks and asks), the team (coordination detail), stakeholders (outcomes) — one update rarely serves all three; the format flexes or splits

▸The cadence and the vehicle — weekly in a channel? Biweekly in a doc? The format compresses for chat, breathes in docs

▸This period's raw material — what actually happened, honestly including the nothing-moved weeks (the format has an honest shape for those too)

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The state is first and its why fits one line

✓Every bullet is a delta — no inventory restatements

✓Every blocker names a person, an action, and a date

✓Next is a dated milestone, verifiable next update

✓The skim layer stands alone in under 30 seconds

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not log activity — attended, discussed, and continued are not deltas

Do not hedge the state — 🟡 announced early is cheap; 🔴 discovered late is expensive

Do not post nameless blockers — unaddressed asks are the sender's fault after the first update

Do not write one essay for three audiences — flex the altitude or split the update

Do not skip the nothing-happened weeks — silence reads as chaos; "no movement, because X" reads as control

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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